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The Iron Age Around the Mediterranean: A High Chronology Perspective from the Groningen Radiocarbon Database

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Johannes van der Plicht ,
Hendrik J Bruins  and
Albert J Nijboer
Johannes van der Plicht
Affiliation:
Center for Isotope Research, Groningen University, Groningen. Also: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
Hendrik J Bruins
Affiliation:
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Sede Boker Campus. Also: Department of Bible, Archaeology, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Beer Sheva Campus, Israel
Albert J Nijboer
Affiliation:
Institute for Archaeology, Groningen University, Groningen, the Netherlands
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In this paper, we present an overview of radiocarbon dating contributions from Groningen, concerning 9 sites from around the Mediterranean region: Israel, Sinai (Egypt), Jordan, Spain, Tunisia, and Italy. Full date lists of the 9 sites are presented. Our 14C dates are discussed in terms of present actual chronological debates. We show that all our 14C dates coherently support a “high chronology” for the Iron Age in each respective area of the Mediterranean region.

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Archaeology
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Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , 2009 , pp. 213 - 242
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Copyright © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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